You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

It's always darkest before dawn. We just have to wait a little while longer. The sun always rises.

Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

Technology is going to continue to evolve, and we should be at the forefront of it. We should continue to innovate. We should be leaders in clean technology and green energy.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

A cat can be social, but a dog, we've bred this hyper social animal that's really truly different and will do stuff for us just to please us with praise and stroking.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.